Javier Peñalosa

The dramatized life of Juana Inés de la Cruz, a renowned writer, nun, and influential political figure in 17th-century Mexico. (imdb)

Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. (imbd)

"All the Freckles in the World" is a story of a boy in his early teens trying to get attention of the school's pretty girl. Set in 90's Mexico City. (imdb)

The story of a boy named Ikal living in a railcar in rural Mexico and how he manages to scrape through the troubles of living a life on the margins, aided by Georgina, a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school .

A retired radio host bags groceries to earn money to attend his former employer's anniversary party, where he hopes to reunite with the love of his life. (imdb)